Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup metatuning Do you know everything?

>> ''Do You Know Everything''
>>
>> 1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
>> 2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
>> 3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
>> 4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
>> 5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
>> 6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
>> 7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
>> 8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
>> 9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
>>building is an American flag.
>> 10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
>> 11. No word in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver,
>>or purple.
>> 12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
>> 14. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
>> on the back of the $5 bill.
>> 15. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
>> 16. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
>> 17. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
>> 18. There are only four words in the English language which end in
>> "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
>> 19. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina
>> de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
>> 20. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
>> 21. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>> 22. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
>> 23. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
>> 24. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
>> 25. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
>>Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a
>>Wonderful Life."
>> 26. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
>> 27. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
>> 28. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
>> 29. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
>> 30. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
>> 31. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
>> 32. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
>>tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
>> 33. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
>> 34. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
>> 35. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
>> 36. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left

>>hand.
>> ... Now You know everything.......

--- In metatuning@y..., "Dante Rosati" <dante.interport@r...> wrote:

> >> 9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament
> >>building is an American flag.

what the heck is up with that?

> >> 14. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
Memorial
> >> on the back of the $5 bill.

hmm . . . i see ILLINOIS NORTH DAKOTA on the upper right, but i
don't see where they could fit all 50 . . . (?)

> >> 26. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

not including the larval stage, i presume?

> >> 30. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

15 inches in diameter, right?

> >> 32. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a
radar
> >>tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

whoops!

> >> 35. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

didn't i just see a movie promo with this factoid? some guy who knows
everything except who he is and what happened to the little girl?

and now, some quotes:

>
> "My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer."
> - Cole Porter
>
> "Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already."
> - Gustav Mahler, to Bruno Walter who had stopped to admire mountain
> scenery in rural Austria.
>
> "I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than
play
> Bach and starve."
> - Xavier Cugat
>
> "[Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen
> every time. They really are interested in music and art."
> - Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his
home.
>
> "The amount of money one needs is terrifying..."
> - Ludwig van Beethoven
>
> "Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can
make
> a living."
> - Kirke Mecham, on his life as a composer
>
> "Chaos is a friend of mine."
> - Bob Dylan
>
> "There is nothing more difficult than talking about music."
> - Camille Saint-Saens
>
> "I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling
to

> my feet."
> - Niccolo Paganini
>
> "Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you
sleep
> all day."
> - Ringo Starr
>
> "What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear of taste?"
> - Nathaniel Hawthorne
>
> "Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you
bought
> two or three seats."
> - Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Michigan.
>
> "If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's
> conversation."
> - Oscar Wilde
>
> "Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together."
> - Mel Brooks
>
> "Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the
> Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
> - William F. Buckley, Jr.
>
> "You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh
and
go
> slow."
> - Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.
>
> "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
> - Mark Twain
>
> "I love Beethoven, especially the poems."
> - Ringo Starr
>
> "Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently."
> - James Gibbons Hunekar
>
> "If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like
> that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."
> - Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland
>
> "There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major."
> - Sergei Prokofiev
>
> "I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion
tamer

> enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?"
> - Dimitri Mitropolous
>
> "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."
> - Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player
>
> "Already too loud!"
> - Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with an American orchestra, on
> seeing the players reaching for their instruments.
>
> "I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than
> Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere."
> - Frederic Chopin
>
> "When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and
> rubbed his name off the piano."
> - Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis Diller
>
> "Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them."
> - Richard Strauss
>
> "In opera, there is always too much singing."
> - Claude Debussy
>
> "An exotic and irrational entertainment."
> - Samuel Johnson's definition of opera
>
> "If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
> - Pierre Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville
>
> "Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of
dying,
he
> sings."
> - Robert Benchley
>
> "I'd hate this to get out, but I really like opera."
> - Ford Frick (Commissioner of Baseball)
>
> "Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no
> singers!"
> - Gioacchino Rossini
>
> "Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica."
> - Sir Thomas Beecham
>
> "I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in
the

> twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse."
> - Bing Crosby
>
> "Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless
> brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the

> indulgent amateurishness of the musical material, though closely
rivaled
> by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed
only
> by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry
Fields
> suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio
> Monteverdi and a jug band.)"
> - Glenn Gould
>
> "A ponderous orchestral absurdity."
> - Frank Zappa on his rock symphony debuted by the Los Angeles
> Philharmonic
>
> "It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some
> kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of
> undifferentiated weirdness."
> - Jerry Garcia

Do you know everything?

🔗Dante Rosati <dante.interport@...>

🔗wallyesterpaulrus <wallyesterpaulrus@...>

🔗Joseph Pehrson <jpehrson@...>

🔗monz <monz@...>

🔗wallyesterpaulrus <wallyesterpaulrus@...>